Alternatives to windows_exporter

Expose Windows system metrics to Prometheus. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as windows_exporter.

  • Telegraf

    Collect and forward metrics using a configurable server agent.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxWindowsmacOSCommand line

    Telegraf is a configurable MIT-licensed agent for Windows, Linux and macOS with many input and output plugins, not tied to Prometheus as the destination.

  • Grafana Alloy

    An open-source telemetry collector from Grafana Labs that gathers and forwards logs, metrics and traces.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Grafana Alloy is a self-hosted collector for logs, metrics and traces from Grafana Labs that fits a Loki and Grafana stack, with configuration that takes time to learn.

  • OpenTelemetry Collector

    Receive, process and export telemetry through a vendor-neutral collector.

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    OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-neutral Apache-2.0 collector for traces, metrics and logs on Windows and other systems, needing a separate storage back end.

Also worth comparing

These listings name windows_exporter as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Prometheus Node Exporter

    A small agent that exposes hardware and operating system metrics from Linux and Unix machines to Prometheus.

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    windows_exporter plays the same role for Windows machines, exposing hardware and Windows service metrics to Prometheus, while Node Exporter covers Linux and Unix.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.